On Thursday 2008 December 18 12:07:04 wauhugo@yahoo.com wrote: > Is there really not one tool, which can print out the selections having > been made during the "BASIC INSTALL" and which additional apt-packages - > actually remain installed - probably from the logfiles - and which > configuration files have been changed after installation or update of > the package? Nope. At least, not that I know of. There's also more than that to rebuilding a system. There's certainly a number of systems out there for laying down a clean install with whatever packages you need, but not really for preserving any custom configurations or data. dpkg --get-selections and aptitude search '~A' are a good start as far as having the same packages installed. ISTR a debconf-get-selections and matching debconf-set-selections that would do the same thing for anything configured through debconf. After that, you'd probably want to tar up any files not managed by debconf in /etc /var and /home to get a complete rebuild (though leaving out /var/tmp, /var/cache, and a few others shouldn't hurt). Also, anything you have in /usr/local or /opt will need to be preserved since official Debian packages don't put stuff there. It's a big task, but something that could super-snapshot a complete Debian system would be fairly useful. Something that tied into FAI or d-i and allowed (but did *not* require) a few hardware-specific tweaks to be done at each deployment could be really nice. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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